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matthiasj33559752
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September 16, 2016
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Acrobat Pro Preflight Fixup: How to map lot of colors?

  • September 16, 2016
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Hello,

we want to map lot of RGB colors with CMYK colors.

Is there any way to import a complete mapping list?

I once saw a table to fill out here. But now I only see the questions.

How can I switch to table mode?

Kind regards

Matt

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Correct answer Luke Jennings

You can create a Preflight Profile in Acrobat that will map specific colors for you.

Here are some basic instructions to get you started and a link to the documentation;

Go to Tools> Print Production> Preflight.

Select the blue wrench icon (changes).

Find "Map color with specified color values", select it and go to Options (upper right corner of window) Duplicate.

Give the new profile a new name, select it and choose Edit.

I have attached a screen shot of an example profile that will look for 155 200 200 RGB and change it to 100 50 0 0 CMYK and also look for 200 200 0 RGB and change it to 75,0,75,0 CMYK.

You will need to add each color individually, select the + button to add additional colors.

If you want to map swatches with specific names, you will want to start with a different preflight profile, but it will work the same way.

Preflight profiles (Acrobat Pro DC)

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Luke Jennings
Luke JenningsCorrect answer
Inspiring
September 20, 2016

You can create a Preflight Profile in Acrobat that will map specific colors for you.

Here are some basic instructions to get you started and a link to the documentation;

Go to Tools> Print Production> Preflight.

Select the blue wrench icon (changes).

Find "Map color with specified color values", select it and go to Options (upper right corner of window) Duplicate.

Give the new profile a new name, select it and choose Edit.

I have attached a screen shot of an example profile that will look for 155 200 200 RGB and change it to 100 50 0 0 CMYK and also look for 200 200 0 RGB and change it to 75,0,75,0 CMYK.

You will need to add each color individually, select the + button to add additional colors.

If you want to map swatches with specific names, you will want to start with a different preflight profile, but it will work the same way.

Preflight profiles (Acrobat Pro DC)

    Dov Isaacs
    Dov Isaacs
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    September 20, 2016

    Such a “complete mapping list” is known as a color management profile.  ICC color management is how color conversion is done between ICC profile tagged RGB (such as sRGB or Adobe RGB) and particular CMYK color spaces such as SWOP and FOGRA.

              - Dov

    - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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    matthiasj33559752Author
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    September 20, 2016

    Thanks for your mail. Does Acrobat offer a tool to make a customized ICC profile?

    We want to convert sRGB to CMYK. But it is important for us to have around 70 RGB values mapped exactly to CMYK values.

    This are Pantone colors, which are coded with the RGB values Pantone wrote on their website.

    They should be transformed to the official Pantone CMYK values. Any idea?

    Thanks

    Matt

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    Legend
    September 20, 2016

    The creation of ICC profiles is highly specialised; Adobe don't do it. Most profile making tools work from calibrations to produce accurate device mappings. It's at least theoretically possible to do what you want (you'd need to somehow interpolate all the other values).

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